After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley
"Music At Night: And Other Essays"
Quotations
Music
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
-Alphonse De Lamartine
Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.
-Bono
"On the Move"
He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
-James Joyce
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
-Rebecca West
"The Fountain Overflows"
Music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Music is everywhere. It’s in the air between us, waiting to be sung.
-David Levithan
"How They Met and Other Stories"
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
